Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kay Bailey Hutchison (22 July 1943-) was a US Senator from Texas from 14 June 1993 to 3 January 2013, succeeding Bob Krueger and preceding Ted Cruz.

Biography
Kathryn Ann Bailey was born in Galveston, Texas in 1943, and she worked as an attorney and legal correspondent at KPRC-TV in Houston before serving in the State House from 1973 to 1976. After a brief business career, she went on to serve as Treasurer of Texas from 1991 to 1993, when she was elected to serve as the first female US Senator from Texas. She had a mixed record on abortion rights, staunchly opposed illegal immigration, opposed DACA, repealed Washington DC's handgun ban, supported single-sex education in public schools, supported embryonic stem-cell research, supported oil drilling off Alaska, voted against Obamacare, opposed same-sex marriage, and supported tax cuts. She briefly considered running for Governor in 2009, but she instead decided to serve out her third term, leaving office in 2013. On 28 August 2017, she was appointed the United States Permanent Representative to NATO by Donald Trump.